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Cincinnati
Enquirer
Voting
problems prompt retraining
of poll workers
Hundreds in Hamilton Co. will be
trained again, but 163 won't be asked back
Aug. 14, 2013
By
Sharon Coolidge
This
“Election Day Performance
Assessment” is the type of scrutiny that all precincts in Hamilton
County had
to undergo after the November balloting.
Hundreds
of Hamilton County poll
workers will be retrained – and 163 “retired” – as a result of voting
problems
in the 2012 election.
That
includes 94 workers at 16
precincts that will be completely restaffed because of a high number of
errors.
The
others failed to vote
themselves and/or performed poorly on Election Day.
Those
163 poll workers represent
about 5.6 percent of poll workers – the most ever who aren’t being
asked back.
The
move comes as board of
elections officials continue to work to find the 2,905 poll workers
needed to
staff the county’s 545 polling locations.
The
Enquirer obtained the list of
problem poll workers and found that 94of them who worked at 16 polling
locations won’t be asked back because they allowed 15 or more votes to
be cast
at the wrong precinct or in the wrong location.
Records
show that, overall, 1,931
votes were cast at the wrong precinct or in the wrong location.
The
polling location at the
Corryville library branch had the most of any precinct with 43.
It’s
impossible to know how many of
those were the result of poll worker error, but the board of elections
said it
was unacceptable. The 16 precincts accounted for 414 of the 1,931
problem
provisional votes.
An
Enquirer review showed all but
one of the 16 polling locations that are being re-staffed have a
Democratic
precinct judge, the presiding authority at a polling site...
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